This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IMJ.2ACEB/1787 Message Board Post: Well to begin with if you found 3 DesMoines in Iowa; they must have been ,the city, the river, and the county. The county is in southest Iowa. Burlington is the county seat. I don't have the address of the genealogy society, but could get it for you. My Joseph did have other brothers. They were Martin and John Thomas. I don't have any Joseph other than mine. Sorry I'm not more help. Sarah